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Going Boeing
The Hunter class is being developed with all the sensors of an AWD but will have a smaller missile capacity due to its ASW role. The BAES proposed 96 cell Type 26/Hunter variant offers a much superior AWD to the Hobart class due to better sensors and twice the missile capacity. It would be a vessel that would be upgradable throughout its service life and remain fully capable in the modern sensor environment and, it would have a large amount of commonality with the ASW version thus reducing logistics and maintenance costs for the RAN.
Not true, Navantia has offered upgrade to 96 cell as part of the block 2 upgrades which we rejected. They also floated a 128 cell hobart block 3 option + alpha 3000 as part of teir 2 program at same expo that 96 cell hunter was discussed